This week, tune in for a double edition of Discourse, featuring the latest in film and the future of molecular biology.
Sunday at 12:00 pm EST, join News Director Nikki Leon for a conversation with filmmaker Damien Chazelle, whose debut picture—Guy and Madeline on a Park Bench—is being featured at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival. [...]
Sunday at 12:00 pm EST, join producer Sophie Jin for an interview with Jon Greenwald, Vice President of the International Crisis Group and former director of the U.S. Department of State Office of Counter-Terrorism. Greenwald discusses the state of American involvement in the Middle East and how the Obama administration is shaping perspectives on America [...]
By Sebastian Jones
WPRB News
This morning Shirley Tilghman, the President of Princeton University, sent an e-mail to students and staff with an “update on Princeton’s response to the economic downturn”, spelling out some of the losses the university’s endowment has suffered.
According to Tilghman, by late October, “the University’s endowment had declined by 11%, based upon our [...]
Two short items from a Friday meeting with Andrew Golden, president of Princeton University Investment Co. (PRINCO), and Cass Cliatt, Princeton’s spokeswoman, about University investments in Zimbabwe and British arms supplier BAE Systems revealed by WPRB last week.
The broad takeaway: while Princeton claims it no longer owns BAE bonds and that it has two cents [...]
I’m currently traveling, but I’ll be posting a short story very soon based on WPRB’s meeting last Friday with Andrew Golden, president of Princeton University Investment Co. (PRINCO), and Cass Cliatt, Princeton’s spokeswoman.
In the meantime, I wanted to point readers to an article that ran last Friday in Princeton’s campus newspaper, The Daily Princetonian, that [...]
University Spokeswoman Cass Cliatt wrote WPRB this morning, pointing us towards a 1997 report (which she had previously mentioned in comments for our first story on Zimbabwe investments) titled Guidelines for Resources Committee Consideration of Investment-Driven “Social Responsibility” Issues.
